Product Description

Join the 290 voice Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir and a vast congregation of fervent, worshipers as they fill the sanctuary with heartfelt praise and worship. Combining a selection of new and favorite songs, this six-time Grammy Award - winning choir leads this live worship event with the distinctly Brooklyn Tabernacle sound. This recording will inspire listeners to enter into the presence of the living God and to respond to the call of Christ with a resounding YES.

Songs Included

Holy Is The Lord

Oh How I Love The Name

Hallelujah You're Worthy

I Never Lost My Praise

We Fill The Sanctuary

The Lord Thy God

I Adore You

I'll Say Yes

Spirit Fall Down

I Need You Once Again

Hallelujah To The King

Bless Your Name Forevermore

Worthy Is The Lamb

Other Details

Label:

Integrity Music

Released:

2008

About the Director

Carol Cymbala

Carol Cymbala directs the 275-member, six-time Grammy Award-winning Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, an unlikely ensemble made up of people from various backgrounds, including attorneys, physicians and former street people. Through the years, she has developed a style of music that has transformed worship in churches across America and throughout the world. She lives in New York City with her husband, Jim Cymbala, who pastors the Brooklyn Tabernacle Church. Read more...

About the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir is directed by Carol Cymbala, the wife of Pastor Jim Cymbala. The 275-voice choir, which for the most part is composed of vocally untrained church members, has recorded three videos, three DVDs and numerous albums, winning five Dove Awards and six Grammy Awards. Their concert venues in New York City have included Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, and the Madison Square Garden Theater. They also had the honor of singing at the Billy Graham Crusades that were held in New York City’s Central Park and Flushing Meadows Park. The recognition that the choir has received has provided them with a wide open door for ministry in presenting the gospel message through music to people all over the world.

But the choir was not always such a large ensemble. It actually began with nine people in the mid-1970s. Soon the small choir became a vital part of the worship services of The Brooklyn Tabernacle. In the early 1980s Carol felt a desire to make a recording to bless the people of the congregation. When she had trouble finding enough material that would lift up the greatness of God, Carol began to write songs herself. The funds for the production of the first choir recording were raised by the choir members themselves who pre-sold albums to their friends and family members. The choir ended up raising enough funds to cover the rental of a large studio for one night, during which all of the sound tracks, vocals, and solos had to be recorded. What a joy it was for those early choir members to distribute that first album to their friends and loved ones!

After nearly thirty years of recordings and live performances, Carol and the choir continue to rely on the Lord for his grace and direction in their ministry. The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir is a highly unlikely group of people, a mixture of ethnic and economic backgrounds, in the heart of a city synonymous with coldness and decay. Made up of attorneys and former street people, nurses and ex-crack addicts, the choir is a unique cross section of humanity. Pastor Cymbala explains: “None of us would have met if it weren’t for Christ. Our backgrounds are just too diverse. But all of us have one thing in common: we have all been lifted up and changed by the power of Jesus Christ. So the choir sings, not about a mere theological doctrine, but about what has happened to them. It’s not just the lyrics of a song; it’s a reality to each of them.” Starting each rehearsal with prayer reinforces that principle as the choir asks the Lord to bless their music and anoint their songs for the services.

"I just want to see people drawn to Jesus Christ,” Carol Cymbala says, “I want the music to be the arrow that points them to him."